Is Kate Mulgrew returning to voice Flemeth?

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Ponce de Leon

Posté 17 juillet 2010 - 07:46

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Oh god, I hope I won't see a Samara/Morinth thing... or rather, yes I'd love that

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Posté 17 juillet 2010 - 07:48

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Biserthebomb wrote...

I think the younger Flemeth will have a younger voice. How much sense would a raspy voice make coming from that slim piece of concept art we've seen?

Gaider has said elsewhere that that drawing comes across as a bit slimmer and younger than the character will appear in-game.

But in any case, why should an ancient shapeshifter's voice necessarily match her body?

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#28
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Posté 17 juillet 2010 - 07:54

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distinguetraces wrote...

Biserthebomb wrote...

I think the younger Flemeth will have a younger voice. How much sense would a raspy voice make coming from that slim piece of concept art we've seen?

Gaider has said elsewhere that that drawing comes across as a bit slimmer and younger than the character will appear in-game.

But in any case, why should an ancient shapeshifter's voice necessarily match her body?

In order for her to seduce Hawke, and the player playing as Hawke, of course. I'm sure she could think of a few good uses for a unstoppable hero...

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#29
craigdolphin

Posté 17 juillet 2010 - 08:04

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I adore Kate Mulgrew...but...I just don't think it necessarily makes sense to have her voice a younger/sexier seductress version of Flemeth.

In real life, the sound of a voice is shaped by the unique combination characteristics of vocal chords, palate shape, nose/sinuses, diaphram etc. It's simple physics. Why wouldn't that also be true in Thedas?

If Flemeth's entire body is differently shaped with a goal to becoming a seductress, it just stands to reason that she would also have a differently timbred/pitched voice as an outworking of the physical changes in her osopho-laryngeal/nasal parts. And, likely, she will probably even affect a different way of speaking if her goal is to play a seductress.

Now, I'm not saying Flemeth couldn't deliberately reshape her body AND keep her original voice: but it would pretty much have to be a conscience choice to do so given that her body looks nothing like it used to. Personally, I think it would be a very odd decision for a shapeshifting seductress to make and there would have to be some quite compelling rationale behind such a choice. So my guess is that Kate Mulgrew is not going to be the voice of Flemeth this time around. I could easily be wrong, and maybe the fantastic writers at Bioware have something up their sleeves that would make my argument redundant. But, until we hear more, FWIW that's my thinking on the subject.

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#30
LiquidGrape

Posté 17 juillet 2010 - 08:08

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Kate Mulgrew has the sexiest voice in the world, bar only Shohreh Aghdashloo.

Funny how BioWare got their paws on both...

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#31
Kaiser Shepard

Posté 17 juillet 2010 - 08:28

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I still fail to see how people enjoy Shohreh's voice that much. She doesn't get beyond "Hey, it's that voice!" for me.

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#32
Arius23

Posté 19 juillet 2010 - 05:38

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Any word Bioware?

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#33
Arius23

Posté 26 juillet 2010 - 10:39

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Does anyone who has played the demo know if the same voice actress is voicing Flemeth in the sequel?

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#34
_John Crichton

Posté 26 juillet 2010 - 10:42

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Yes, she is.

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#35
Bryy_Miller

Posté 26 juillet 2010 - 10:58

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It sounded a hell of a lot like her, doesn't mean it is her. I hope it was, but I'm skeptical.

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#36
Hel

Posté 26 juillet 2010 - 11:13

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The Voice actors certainly aren’t horrendous. Some of them were actually pretty good, and you might just recognize a few voices from the old DAO, *cough* Flemeth *cough*.

Taking into account the timeline at which the demo supposedly unfolds, this surely marks the return of Kate! :wub:

Modifié par Helekanalaith, 26 juillet 2010 - 11:14 .

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#37
IoCaster

Posté 27 juillet 2010 - 12:22

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distinguetraces wrote...

Biserthebomb wrote...

I think the younger Flemeth will have a younger voice. How much sense would a raspy voice make coming from that slim piece of concept art we've seen?

Gaider has said elsewhere that that drawing comes across as a bit slimmer and younger than the character will appear in-game.

But in any case, why should an ancient shapeshifter's voice necessarily match her body?

I agree that the voice matching the body shouldn't matter. Besides her voice hasn't really changed all that much over the years.

www.youtube.com/watch

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#38
Arius23

Posté 27 juillet 2010 - 12:27

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Yay! I hope she comes back to Dragon Con this year, I'd love to meet her again

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#39
Thomas9321

Posté 27 juillet 2010 - 12:55

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I hope so. We really didn't get to see much of her in Origins. I'm hoping she fills a Kreia type role for Hawke.

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#40
Malanek

Posté 27 juillet 2010 - 01:11

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Why exactly is everyone so sure it will be a young and seductive Flemeth? All I have seen is one iffy screenshot where she still appears more ageless than young. The same voice would fit that appearance. Also if she was asked to change her voice somewhat, she might be able to do it.